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Originally Posted by jaxgator
  F'king clueless. I am done with you Phil. Not worth my time. It's unbelievable how naive you really are.
Bleeding heart liberals. "Oooo, those nasty, mean, rich corporations." again. |
You're just now figuring that out? I figured Phil out about 9 years ago.
He is a nice guy in person but his online socialist persona is
-worthy.
Trying to fisk his many posts in this thread would be fun but I simply don't have the time or energy to engage him. But I will just leave him with this. He claims that corporations have offshored our manufacturing sector. That's utter bullshit because the US of A manufactures 1/5 of the world's goods, and we manufacture more items every single year but for 2 (2000 and 2008) going back to the 70's. But we have offshored a good amount of manufacturing in that time. So how is this possible? In the fuzzy liberal mind, it isn't. But small L libertarians like myself know the answer.
It's INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY! And a lot of that increased productivity comes in the form of robotics, computerized manufacturing method, and other related things that result in more product at a lower labor input. This may mean 20 workers are replaced by a machine, like a CNC operator can replace 20 guys running a lathe.
And another thing. People who pay 15% on Capital Gains are "only" paying that much because the money they invested has ALREADY BEEN TAXED as income. Duh frickin' duh. This is similar to a socialist bitching that sales taxes aren't 50% for rich people or something like that. And to randomly state that only rich people get taxed at this 15% rate is the height of ignorance and should tell you all you need to know about his knowledge on the subject.